The typical christmas nightmare (1 Viewer)

[m0ng0]

I have had an Onkyo htr 540 7.1 receiver for a couple of years and my wife just bought us a new 32" tv (Insignia NS-32L450A11) and a Panasonic Blu Ray (DMP-BD85K) since it had the analog outs for 7.1 sound I figured I would be golden. So I used an HDMI between the tv and blu ray, then plugged in all the rca's going to all the surround inputs on my Onkyo amp. When I play a disk everything seems to work just fine in 7.1, when I try to watch tv I get no sound from the amp at all. I hope I am missing something easy as I dont know what else needs to be in the chain. TV to Blu Ray via hdmi, blu ray to amp via analog outs?


Any ideas ?

 

[Robert_J]

For regular TV, you need to connect the TV to the receiver via the best connection which is usually optical. If you are using a cable box or satellite receiver then you need to connect that to the receiver instead of the TV.

 

[m0ng0]

ok this is getting very frustrating, when i watch a blu ray using the setup listed above, i get all the sounds except the dialog, I get dialog even when watching the previews, but not on the actual movie, someone please help before my wife kills me !

 

[mikeabt]

John,


If you are running only 7.1 analog out of the blu-ray, then it must be a plug-in issue at the BD player or at the back of the reciever. Concentrate on the front/center where dialog is typically generated. That would be the first move to make. Then it could be in the set-up of the BD player - making sure that you acknowledge the center front channel in the set-up screen.


Previews are probably not in 7.1 discrete. Movie is.


Try that and get back.

 

[m0ng0]

thanks,


I will re check everything again also when I do a speaker test using the blu ray menus only the right front channel gives that buzzing sound the rest are completely silent :-/

 

[mikeabt]

When I do "the test" on my Toshiba BD player I get funky playback as well. However, performance is fine. I have come to not trust those.